// color your text in Windows console mode
      // colors are 0=black 1=blue 2=green and so on to 15=white
      // colorattribute = foreground + background * 16
      // to get red text on yellow use 4 + 14*16 = 228
      // light red on yellow would be 12 + 14*16 = 236



      #include <iostream>
      #include <windows.h> // WinApi header

      using namespace std; // std::cout, std::cin

      int main()

      {

      HANDLE hConsole;
      int k;

      hConsole = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);

      // you can loop k higher to see more color choices

      for(k = 1; k < 255; k++)

      {

      // pick the colorattribute k you want

      SetConsoleTextAttribute(hConsole, k);

      cout << k << " I want to be nice today!" << endl;

      }

      return 0;

      }